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| Title: | -={ H A C K E R S }=- |
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| Moderator: | DIEHRD::MORRIS |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Aug 03 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 680 |
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240.0. "Hacker Discovers Satanic Messages in Lisp!" by VAXUUM::DYER (Iceberg or volcano?) Fri May 09 1986 15:29
Date: 8 May 1986 10:41 EDT (Thu)
From: Bruce R. Donald <BRD at OZ>
Hacker Rips "Lisp Machine Manual"
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CAMBRIDGE, MA. Church members singing "O, How I Love Jesus" burned
3600 manuals, mice, and FEP proms after attending a seminar in which
an evangelist said the "Lisp Machine Manual" conveys a satanic message
to unwary readers.
About 75 teenagers attended the prom burning after the Tuesday night
seminar.
Our M. Ess, an evangelist, said the SI: package extols Satan when
disassambled. SI:RECORD-SOURCE-FILE-NAME contains the microcoded
message "the source is Satan," and "someone munged this file for
Satan," Rev. Ess said during the seminar. "Furthermore, it is
unnatural to be able to Meta-dot something that isn't declared with a
DEFUN, the way God and Steele indended," Ess continued. "Function
definition by artificial means is the first sign of demonic
possession."
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 240.1 | Well, that explains malfunctions... | BOVES::WALL | So what. Big Deal | Mon May 12 1986 09:53 | 3 |
| I almost feel silly for asking, but is this for real?
DFW
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| 240.2 | Ayuh | VAXUUM::DYER | Iceberg or volcano? | Mon May 12 1986 12:56 | 4 |
| It's an almost word-for-word parody of an AP press release
about the Mr. Ed theme. "Our M. Ess" is probably RMS (Richard
M. Stallman).
<_Jym_>
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